The Vance Crowe Podcast

Zak Stein is an expert in psychology and philosophy, and previously a Co-Founder at Lectica Inc. His expertise is in how people learn. He sat down with Vance Crowe to discuss the difference between propaganda and education.

During this conversation Zak and Vance talk about how the CIA has a history of focusing its propaganda wars…

Miriam Hoffman is a former national FFA officer and a member of the Articulate Ventures Network. Miriam completed her year as a national officer with a bang, concluding her term with a speech at the national convention that talked about preserving tradition while pursuing the future. Vance and Miriam talk about this experience of…

Joscha Bach is a rare mind. He is an artificial intelligence researcher that is sought out by people doing research to understand how the human mind works.

He sat down with Vance Crowe for a second time to discuss if our world is in a more precarious place than in the past. Bach discusses what happens if a parent chooses not to…

Most Surprising: Lucy Thackray (episode #144)
Contribution to the Pattern Language: David Goodhart (episode #104)
Most Up-The-Graph: Lee Cronin (episode #126)
Prompted you to change your life: Erik Hoel (episode #135)
Most Memorable: Jim Rutt ( First appearance episode #114) Virtual Reality episode #124)
Most Talked…

Justin Murphy is an independent social scientist who writes about philosophy, science, and technology. Vance and Justin talk about why he left the safety net of academia to teach courses independently online and how this choice is telling of a broader trend that Justin refers to as prestige defection. Vance and Justin also discuss Rene…

Evija has a Ph.D. in Depth Psychology and is a board member of the Jungian Society for Scholarly Studies. Evija left a 20 year career at the World Bank Group where she met Vance, to study Jungian psychology full time. Vance and Evija have a deep discussion about meditation, searching for truth…

Alex Dodge is an internationally acclaimed artist with studios in both New York City and Tokyo. His art is a unique blend of mediums, is designed in virtual space and then hand crafted. He speaks with Vance Crowe about textures, colors, shadows, and the medium of art itself. Dodge recently had a daughter and the two discuss whether…

Alina Chan is a molecular biologist who specializes in gene therapy and cell engineering at the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT. She published a pre-print document regarding a hypothesis about how COVID-19 might have entered humans. This led Chan on a wild adventure to discover COVID-19 true origins.

Alina Chan is the co-author…

David Wood goes to violent conflict regions to find ways to bring people together so that they can resolve issues that are leading to war.  Wood is a professor of practice at Seton Hall University's School of Diplomacy and International Relations.

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Dr Michael Levin is an amazing scientist that studies how electricity plays a role in all living things. He sits down with Vance Crowe to talk about the regeneration of limbs, the value of not defining things in binary terms, how he is preparing his children for a wild and unknown future and ends with an explanation of what he thinks is…